From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from ip4-83-240-67-251.cust.nbox.cz ([83.240.67.251]:51271 "EHLO ip4-83-240-18-248.cust.nbox.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752848AbbEDMiH (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 08:38:07 -0400 From: Jiri Slaby To: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski , Sebastian Reichel , Jiri Slaby Subject: [patch added to the 3.12 stable tree] power_supply: twl4030_madc: Check return value of power_supply_register Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 14:37:03 +0200 Message-Id: <1430743082-6957-12-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <1430743082-6957-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> References: <1430743082-6957-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Krzysztof Kozlowski This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 68c3ed6fa7e0d69529ced772d650ab128916a81d upstream. The return value of power_supply_register() call was not checked and even on error probe() function returned 0. If registering failed then during unbind the driver tried to unregister power supply which was not actually registered. This could lead to memory corruption because power_supply_unregister() unconditionally cleans up given power supply. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Fixes: da0a00ebc239 ("power: Add twl4030_madc battery driver.") Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby --- drivers/power/twl4030_madc_battery.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/power/twl4030_madc_battery.c b/drivers/power/twl4030_madc_battery.c index 7ef445a6cfa6..cf907609ec49 100644 --- a/drivers/power/twl4030_madc_battery.c +++ b/drivers/power/twl4030_madc_battery.c @@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ static int twl4030_madc_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) { struct twl4030_madc_battery *twl4030_madc_bat; struct twl4030_madc_bat_platform_data *pdata = pdev->dev.platform_data; + int ret = 0; twl4030_madc_bat = kzalloc(sizeof(*twl4030_madc_bat), GFP_KERNEL); if (!twl4030_madc_bat) @@ -216,9 +217,11 @@ static int twl4030_madc_battery_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) twl4030_madc_bat->pdata = pdata; platform_set_drvdata(pdev, twl4030_madc_bat); - power_supply_register(&pdev->dev, &twl4030_madc_bat->psy); + ret = power_supply_register(&pdev->dev, &twl4030_madc_bat->psy); + if (ret < 0) + kfree(twl4030_madc_bat); - return 0; + return ret; } static int twl4030_madc_battery_remove(struct platform_device *pdev) -- 2.3.5